Emtricitabine
Emtricitabine is only found in individuals that have used or taken this drug. It is a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) for the treatment of HIV infection in adlits. Emtricitabine is an analogue of cytidine.Emtricitabine works by inhibiting reverse transcriptase, the enzyme that copies HIV RNA into new viral DNA. Emtricitabine is a synthetic nucleoside analogue of cytidine. It is phosphorylated by cellliar enzymes to form emtricitabine 5-triphosphate, which is responsible for the inhibition of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase. It competes with the natural substrate deoxycytidine 5-triphosphate and incorporates into nascent viral DNA, resliting in early chain termination. Therefore emtricitabine inhibits the activity of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) both by competing with the natural substrate deoxycytidine 5-triphosphate and by its incorporation into viral DNA. By inhibiting HIV-1 reverse transcriptase, emtricitabine can help to lower the amount of HIV, or “viral load”, in a patients body and can indirectly increase the number of immune system cells (called T cells or CD4+ T-cells). Both of these changes are associated with healthier immune systems and decreased likelihood of serious illness.
Structure for HMDB15017 (Emtricitabine)
C8H10FN3O3S
247.247
247.042690096
4-amino-5-fluoro-1-[(2R,5S)-2-(hydroxymethyl)-1,3-oxathiolan-5-yl]-1,2-dihydropyrimidin-2-one
emtricitabine
143491-57-0
XQSPYNMVSIKCOC-NTSWFWBYSA-N
This compound belongs to the class of organic compounds known as 3-thia pyrimidine nucleosides. These are nucleoside analogues with a structure that consists of a pyrimidine base, which is N-substituted at the 1-position with a 3-thia derivative (1,3-oxazolidine) of the ribose moiety that is characteristic of nucleosides.
Organic compounds
Nucleosides, nucleotides, and analogues
Nucleoside and nucleotide analogues
3-thia pyrimidine nucleosides
3-thia pyrimidine nucleosides
Aromatic heteromonocyclic compounds
Expected but not Quantified
Solid
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DB00879
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54859
C12599
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Emtricitabine
HMDB15017
HMDB15017
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60877
ETV
31536
- Authors unspecified: Emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate. Drugs R D. 2004;5(3):160-1. [PubMed:15139777 ]
- Goicoechea M, Best B: Efavirenz/emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate fixed-dose combination: first-line therapy for all? Expert Opin Pharmacother. 2007 Feb;8(3):371-82. [PubMed:17266471 ]
- Masho SW, Wang CL, Nixon DE: Review of tenofovir-emtricitabine. Ther Clin Risk Manag. 2007 Dec;3(6):1097-104. [PubMed:18516268 ]
- Long MC, King JR, Acosta EP: Pharmacologic aspects of new antiretroviral drugs. Curr HIV/AIDS Rep. 2009 Feb;6(1):43-50. [PubMed:19149996 ]
Enzymes
- General function:
- Involved in ATP binding
- Specific function:
- Required for the phosphorylation of the deoxyribonucleosides deoxycytidine (dC), deoxyguanosine (dG) and deoxyadenosine (dA). Has broad substrate specificity, and does not display selectivity based on the chirality of the substrate. It is also an essential enzyme for the phosphorylation of numerous nucleoside analogs widely employed as antiviral and chemotherapeutic agents.
- Gene Name:
- DCK
- Uniprot ID:
- P27707
- Molecular weight:
- 30518.315
References
- Bethell R, De Muys J, Lippens J, Richard A, Hamelin B, Ren C, Collins P: In vitro interactions between apricitabine and other deoxycytidine analogues. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2007 Aug;51(8):2948-53. Epub 2007 May 21. [PubMed:17517847 ]